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94 The Roman poet
Statius
retires to Naples from Rome
.
536 Belisarius takes Naples.
542 Ostrogoth
king Totila
reconquers Naples, Benevento
, and other parts of Italy
.
1134 Roger II of Sicily
defeats a revolt in Naples.
1224 Foundation of the University of Naples
1250 A plague breaks out in the city Naples (In what is now Italy), called the Naple's Plague
1266 In the Battle of Benevento, an army led by Charles
, Count of Anjou
, defeats a combined German
and Sicilian
force led by King Manfred of Sicily
. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV
invests Charles as king of Sicily
and Naples.
1272 Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durres in Albania
and establishes an Albanian kingdom.
1284 King Charles II of Naples
is captured in a naval battle off Naples by Roger of Lauria
, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon
.
1441 Alfonso V of Aragon
captures Naples after a five month siege.
1454 April 18 Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the duchy of Milan
, republic of Florence
and kingdom of Naples
1494 Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
1495 King Charles VIII of France
enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as Viceroy.
1495 A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II
to the throne of Naples.
1496 Spanish
forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French
viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples.
1503 Capture of Naples by the Spanish
.
1504 France
cedes Naples to Aragon
.
1505 Judah Abravanel becomes personal physician to the viceroy of Naples.
1564 March 8 — Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death
1709 Teofania di Adamo, inventor of the poison Aqua Tofana, is executed in Naples, Italy
1762 Britain declares war on Spain
and Naples
1851 Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy
discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1857 An earthquake
with an estimated magnitude of 6.9 kills 11,000 people in Naples, Italy
.
1860 Battle of Catalafimi; troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi
defeat the army of Naples in Sicily, during the Second Italian independence war.
1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi
gives Naples to the king Victor Emmanuel II
.
1906 Mount Vesuvius
erupts and devastates Naples.
1980 A DC-9
belonging to the Italian Airline Itavia crashes into the sea near Naples after an explosion occurs in the air - 81 people die - a bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits are ever found.
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